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FBIS3-11746_1
Opposition to Delivery of French Food Aid Cited Sansaricq on Plan To Block French Aid
the arrival of the French food aid. Gilles says, however, that the international organizations must think in the future of purchasing those products in Haiti in order not to change the Haitian population's food habits. [Gilles, in Creole] One can not turn up his nose at 50,000 meals, but I understand the people who hav...
FBIS3-11755_1
Opposition to Delivery of French Food Aid Cited Groups Protest Arrival of Ship
and private school students is in good condition and that they will come with a certificate to prove the quality of the products purchased on Guadeloupe. In a communique published on Wednesday, the French mission added that the food shipment is part of the traditional assistance that several countries have been providi...
FBIS3-11760_1
Presence Along Costa Rican Border To Increase
decades," the Nicaraguan foreign minister said. In mid-March Costa Rican Foreign Minister Bernd Niehaus questioned the Nicaraguan authorities about the charging of a toll in the village of La Trinidad, where the Sarapiqui River meets the San Juan River. Leal said the Nicaraguan authorities will continue to charge citiz...
FBIS3-11769_0
Journalists Define Production Costs
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Straight Talk" program with host Carlos Santana Ojeda and guest Renato Recio from TRABAJADORES newspaper; monitored in progress -- live] [Text] [Recio] ...First of all, the workers understood clearly that cost is a basic factor in measuring efficiency. They realized that if we do no...
FBIS3-11770_2
Journalists Discuss Theft, Embezzlement
provinces: in Havana and Havana City. [Santana] Nevertheless, you pointed out in your report that for some irresponsible and undisciplined people the measures taken have been bothersome. [Concepcion] Yes, logically. What was happening here was the following -- let me see if I can paint a picture for you so that the lis...
FBIS3-11770_4
Journalists Discuss Theft, Embezzlement
a bit abandoned. What happens is that one organization or company asks another agricultural company to provide a truck load of tubers for its cafeterias -- and this is good -- but in practice what is happening is that the truck load of tubers is not used just to feed the workers, but many of those products are sent els...
FBIS3-11780_0
Roundup of Economic Activity
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 22 and 25 March. Radio Reloj at 1500 GMT on 22 March reports that the Matanzas sugar industry has fulfilled the sugarcane planting plan for ...
FBIS3-11784_0
Candidates React to Congressmen's Aid Retention Suggestion
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Up-to-Date Newscast"] [Text] A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who observed the elections in El Salvador today called for the retention of U.S. economic aid until anomalies in the voters' registration lists are overcome. Representatives from New York...
FBIS3-11808_0
More International Reaction
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of international reaction to the 23 March assassination in Tijuana, Baja California, of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, presidential candidate for the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI. Mexico City Radio ACIR Network in Spanish at 1600 GMT o...
FBIS3-11809_0
Roundup of Radio ACIR Reporting on Reaction
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of Mexico City Radio ACIR Network in Spanish reporting on domestic and foreign reaction to the 23 March assassination in Tijuana, Baja California, of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, presidential candidate for the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party...
FBIS3-11818_2
Bank Loan Practices Hamper Production
from what is actually needed to produce a good crop. And there is something even more serious: the limited funds they have planned to disburse will be subject to availability. This means that they will approve loans whose actual disbursement is not guaranteed. The available bank funds will be subject to the funds it ha...
FBIS3-11832_0
Candidates React to Congressmen's Aid Retention Suggestion
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Up-to-Date Newscast"] [Text] A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who observed the elections in El Salvador today called for the retention of U.S. economic aid until anomalies in the voters' registration lists are overcome. Representatives from New York...
FBIS3-11848_3
EL TIEMPO Publishes Document on Havana Meeting Latin American and Caribbean Meeting for Solidarity, Self-Determination, and Life of the Peoples, held in Havana (Cuba) between 26 and 28 January 1994.
No. 2, Building D-3, Zone-7 Alamar in eastern Havana. Other subversives of the ELN and EPL also live in this building. Together with other individuals from Central and South America they receive subversive training at the international aid camp "El Caimito" located in the vicinity of Havana. 2. IVAN ROMERO and JORGE OR...
FBIS3-11861_1
Commentary: U.S. Summit `Filled With Injustice'
the start because of the deliberate exclusion of Cuba, U.S. Vice President Albert Gore, during his quick tour of Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil, took time to hold an equally quick meeting with several of the likely participants at the hemispheric summit to issue propaganda about the forum. Most likely, poverty will be ...
FBIS3-11881_2
Editorial Assesses Relations After Gore Visit
stumbling block in bilateral relations. He commented on the possibility -- previously mentioned by Kantor -- of Argentina being included on a list of countries liable for economic sanctions. This could happen if considerable progress has not been made in this respect by 30 April. Menem also referred to another possible...
FBIS3-11882_1
`Disagreements' With U.S. Over Patents Noted
can disagree. -- International trade is today the most sensitive area. Through its efforts to adjust its economy to the demands of capitalism, Argentina has become the country in the hemisphere that is most strongly committed to the neoliberal model. In order to make this bitter medicine easier to swallow, Argentina be...
FBIS3-11882_2
`Disagreements' With U.S. Over Patents Noted
is concentrated in the military sector, while its economic power has been fragmented and has been transferred from the states to the corporations, which are ruled by the ideology of big, fast profits. Old certainties, like the ones provided by the Bretton Woods system, have disappeared. In a recently published article ...
FBIS3-11883_3
Economy Minister Views Government `Pressure'
its economic program, Argentina achieved a 0.4-percent inflation rate, that's nearly zero inflation. If Argentina achieved this, why not Brazil? It must also be borne in mind that Brazil has achieved significant progress in fiscal matters. [Passage omitted] [LA NACION] Will the UCR [Radical Civic Union] continue to be ...
FBIS3-11887_1
President Sanchez de Lozada Interviewed
to establish a raw-material processing industry (the processing of national raw materials in another country and the purchase of the finished products) that will allow us to export lines in which Argentina is no longer competitive as a consequence of its high labor costs. This way we will export products and not people...
FBIS3-11901_0
Foreign Minister Robaina's Visit to Asia Reviewed Discusses Change Process
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Rey Rodriguez -- all quotations marks as received] [Text] Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 23 Mar (PL) -- Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina said today that Cuba is immersed in a necessary process to change and that it requires the people's involvement so they feel they are partici...
FBIS3-11901_1
Foreign Minister Robaina's Visit to Asia Reviewed Discusses Change Process
change and that it requires the people's involvement so they feel they are participating in it. In a meeting with Vo Tran Chin, member of the Politburo of the Vietnamese Communist Party (PCU) and its first secretary in this city, Robaina said that changes being implemented in his country are carried out under strong pr...
FBIS3-11904_1
Foreign Minister Robaina's Visit to Asia Reviewed Interviewed on Foreign Policy
an exclusive interview for PRENSA LATINA. Cuba's economic crisis looked to me as the best option for the first question. [Robaina] It is true the situation is still difficult and that it will take big efforts to find adequate solutions to our project, but I am pleased to say the worst is over. The crisis hit rock botto...
FBIS3-11908_1
`Analysts' Welcome U.S. Debate on Ending Embargo
ending the blockade against Cuba both within and outside the U.S. Congress . Hernandez explained that even within the U.S. Administration itself there are groups that have different ideas on the subject, and he stressed that because a group within Congress has adopted this position, greater support could be given to th...
FBIS3-11909_0
TRABAJADORES on Rejection of U.S. Blockade
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 21 Mar (PL) -- The weekly TRABAJADORES today reported that rejection of the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba is increasing in the United States, but at the same time, it is meeting resistance from unknown major forces in official and unofficial circles. The mouthpiece of ...
FBIS3-11910_0
Report Says End to U.S. Embargo Not in Sight
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Exclusive" report by Nicanor Leon Cotayo: "Is the Embargo Against Cuba About To End?"] [Text] Havana -- Now that Washington has lifted the embargo on Vietnam, where the United States lost nearly 60,000 men during the war imposed on that Asian nation, many people have wondered whethe...
FBIS3-11911_1
U.S. View of `Russian Danger' Questioned
to European security" is the potential danger that Russia might try to recover control over the territories of the "former Soviet empire." Has anyone ever said that is one of Russia's intentions? Rifkind said such signals come not only from nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovskiy but also from Russian Foreign Minister...
FBIS3-11912_2
Article Views CIA's Future Role, Goals
in action in enemy territory, according to Woolsey's explanations. Most likely the files can attest to a greater number of agents killed. According to the charges filed against Ames by a special FBI commission, he is suspected of having provided Moscow with the names and identities of 10 CIA agents infiltrated into the...
FBIS3-11929_1
Article Views `Shaken' Democratic Process
of the crisis under the perspective of elections and the constitutional reform. They are unable to answer questions that are being discussed in Congress, like: Although part of the military is willing to stage a coup with the discreet support of some important civilians, would a "strong" government have any legitimacy ...
FBIS3-11940_2
Lt. Col. Explains New Anti-Theft Measures
have been activated at places dealing with the fields, that is to say where the product is harvested, taken out of the ground, SUVP groups belonging to the miscellaneous crops enterprise, the Basic Cooperative Production Units [UBPC], or the community, that is, all SUVP groups that, through residency or organization, h...
FBIS3-11942_1
ANPP May Not Adopt All Controversial Measures
to a minimum during this fourth year of the so-called Special Period. The measures being considered include a new taxation system, the end of subsidies for consumer goods and services, price increases, and a reduction in the size of the government apparatus with the resulting increase in unemployment. Since the disappe...
FBIS3-11946_0
Workers Conclude Discussions of Economic Measures
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Miguel de la Guardia; from the "Commenting on the News" section of the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The elaborate discussions of the economic measures that Cuba plans to apply to pull out of the deep crisis produced by the collapse of the socialist camp...
FBIS3-11964_2
Candidate Zamora Interview on Runoff Elections
not use the right words about a runoff election. I believe just the opposite is true. Elections are a democratic exercise by the people. They are an opportunity for the Salvadoran people. We should welcome every opportunity the people have to express their will and choose a government. That is the essence of democracy....
FBIS3-11974_1
Incoming Foreign Minister Views U.S. Ties
with the United States. However, according to experts, the situation started when the administration of President Calderon Fournier endorsed former U.S. President George Bush in the election won by Democrat Bill Clinton. Moment of Tension Tensions soared in February of last year, when the United States threatened to bl...
FBIS3-11984_10
Treasury Secretary on Budget, Foreign Debt
that the new system should produce, so that the Treasury will not lose out during a period of transition. [PRESENCIA] The announcements about the composition of the budget and the structural measures the government intends to initiate are already causing social conflict. Although your office is essentially technical, w...
FBIS3-11984_14
Treasury Secretary on Budget, Foreign Debt
of spending, and the domestic debt increased spectacularly. They were contracting projects, buying goods and services, and not paying for them. This is why we received an accumulated domestic debt of almost 180 million bolivares. [PRESENCIA] Is this the problem with the construction companies? [Cossio] With everyone. C...
FBIS3-11995_0
Official Outlines Strategy To Monitor Human Rights
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Camilo Chaparro] [Text] With a new approach, the Attorney General's Office is beginning to develop the monitoring of human rights and maintaining checks on the Armed Forces. Traditionally, the Attorney General's Office has only exerted disciplinary control over servicemen a...
FBIS3-11999_1
Unemployment Statistics, Predictions Reported
in an article in the periodical CORREO POBLACIONAL of the lack of planning of a political and industrial nature that would lead to the creation of jobs. "It is hoped that the market, on its own, will generate businesses and jobs, but there is no structural policy oriented toward this goal." He notes that the lack of re...
FBIS3-12001_1
Fertility, Infant Mortality, Literacy Rates
burden of more than $1,000 (2 million sucres) in foreign debt. Perhaps for this reason, among many others, the citizens of Ecuador today want fewer children than was the case in the past. The decline in population growth from 3.1 percent in 1974 to 2.1 percent per year in 1992 is the most important change in the demogr...
FBIS3-12002_0
Article Reviews `Increasingly Isolated President'
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Carlos Martini] [Text] Some blunders like appointing Bacon Duarte Prado as an adviser or avoiding the implementation of serious measures at the IPS [Social Security Institute] are factors that reduce the credibility of the executive branch's political management. If we add...
FBIS3-12004_6
Fujimori Interviewed on Relations With Chile, Economy, `95 Election
recessionary level, because of the dollar being underrated -- not because of economic problems, but because of drug trafficking -- and because of the relatively high interest rates. We want to uproot those problems. Concerning the exchange rate, we are doing more efficient work, concentrating in antinarcotics actions a...
FBIS3-12008_9
Interview With 200 Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement Leader
Special Powers Law will assure that the most appropriate measures will be taken. We must recall that a Special Powers Law was available to Carlos Andres Perez, and all he did with it was cut off all of Venezuela's chances -- despite all the resources available to him -- to be led into a true national project. Subsequen...
FBIS3-12019_12
Former Interior Secretary Interviewed
[Pages] There are three candidates from three, let us say, strong political parties, who will face each other in the presidential race. In general terms, what does each one represent to the nation? [Gutierrez] They represent a historic opportunity. Partisan institutions are the expression of democracy. They will have t...
FBIS3-12019_14
Former Interior Secretary Interviewed
society as a whole is perceived. This higher maturity, combined with a respect for electoral laws and the individual right to vote, will lead to a peaceful transfer of power. [Pages] Do you believe that what has been called the Mexican political system is still in effect? [Gutierrez] The Mexican political system is sti...
FBIS3-12020_0
Article Views Effects of Stagnant Domestic Savings
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Marcos Chavez M.] [Text] Although in the current six-year term, financial savings [ahorro financiero] increased in an extraordinary manner -- it went from 31 percent to about 45 percent of GNP between 1988 and 1993 -- such resources have not produced a significant increase...
FBIS3-12021_6
Discussion on Makeup of Meeting With Emigres
the son and grandson of emigrants. My grandparents came from Spain to Cuba. Part of my family, especially my parents, emigrated after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution; I know the mechanics and the nature of the emigrant because I learned about it from my own family. My grandparents never talked about returning to Sp...
FBIS3-12025_2
Incoming Foreign Minister Discusses Goals
cultural activities, education, labor unions, and professional associations who want to occupy the various foreign mission posts abroad. The sole purpose of this assignment is to "send only the best." These efforts are not limited to the area of personnel selection alone. "I am worried our diplomatic installations abro...
FBIS3-12033_0
Commentary Notes Report on U.S. Military Force
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The U.S. Pentagon keeps offensive war materiel near Cuba. The naval base in Guantanamo illegally occupied by Washington, located in the eastern part of the island, is not the only source of aggressio...
FBIS3-12046_0
Russia Agrees To Trade Oil for Sugar
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The INTERFAX press agency reported today that the Russian Government has reduced the amount of oil earmarked for countries of the former Soviet Union in order to send it to Cuba. The source added that due to a request by the Russian Foreign Economic Relations Ministry, this yea...
FBIS3-12056_0
Roundup of Economic Activity
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 26 and 29 March. Radio Rebelde at 1800 GMT on 26 March reports that Guantanamo Province has been one of the most outstanding provinces in ha...
FBIS3-12062_1
Article Views U.S. Trade Official's Visit
several ministers to promote the interests of U.S. enterprises, particularly those in the areas of telecommunications, intellectual property rights, and supplying equipment for the Sivan/Sipam project for monitoring the Amazonas -- whose deadline for presentation of financial proposals by the international community ex...
FBIS3-12075_0
Roundup of Economic Developments
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Mexican economic developments monitored through 29 March. In January, the combined effects of more imports and a new decline in petroleum revenues generated a 26.9 percent increase in the trade deficit over the January 1993 figure, accordi...
FBIS3-12079_0
Mob Attacks U.S. Citizen for `Stealing Babies'
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Julio Amilcar Nuila] [Text] There is still tense calm here. Many people are outside the local office of the justice of the peace. Hours of heavy tension were experienced here. Everything began in the morning hours, about mid-morning, when people here accused a U.S. citizen ...
FBIS3-12083_0
Roundup of Economic Developments
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Guatemalan economic developments monitored through 29 March. Six days after trading at the foreign exchange market began, the price of the U.S. dollar price has stabilized. On Monday, the exchange rate stabilized at an average of 5.81 quet...
FBIS3-12089_0
U.S. Tobacco Restrictions Prompt GATT Protest
Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Chile and seven other countries have made a presentation within GATT against the United States. The presentation contained claims against U.S. measures affecting the sales of tobacco on the U.S. market. This information was released by the Foreign Ministry through an official c...
FBIS3-12100_0
Roundup of Economic Developments
Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Venezuelan economic developments monitored through 29 March. The possibility that the U.S. Federal Reserve may tighten its monetary policies and increase interest rates in the short term once again made the prices of Venezuelan foreign deb...
FBIS3-12151_0
Rioting, Clashes Throughout Country Cause Casualties 9 Killed in Clashes
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hebron, Occupied West Bank, Feb 25 (AFP) -- Fifty-two Palestinians were slain and dozens wounded at a Hebron mosque Friday while another nine Palestinians were shot dead in ensuing clashes, doctors told AFP. In the aftermath of the firing by one or more settlers at the Tomb of ...
FBIS3-12152_0
Rioting, Clashes Throughout Country Cause Casualties Update on Casualty Toll
Language: Hebrew Article Type:BFN [Text] According to unofficial figures 39 people were killed in the Cave of the Patriarchs yesterday. Fifteen residents were killed by IDF [Israel Defense Forces] gunfire in Hebron and its environs during the riots which erupted following the massacre. Another four were killed in simil...
FBIS3-12153_0
Rioting, Clashes Throughout Country Cause Casualties Incidents Continue
Language: Hebrew Article Type:BFN [Report by correspondent in the territories Moti Amir -- live] [Excerpt] The unrest in the territories continues, although the scope of the riots does not match the incidents yesterday following the Hebron massacre. In Gaza, a youth was killed a short while ago by IDF [Israel Defense F...
FBIS3-12202_0
Minister Assails Reports on Marshland Flooding
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Baghdad, 28 Feb (INA)--In reply to what the British BBC and the U.S. NBC television networks have screened about alleged flooding in the marshlands, Irrigation Minister Nizar Jum'ah al-Qasir has said that the water resources in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers this year are lower...
FBIS3-12233_0
Paper Blames U.S., Israel Blamed for Attack
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN ["Issue and Opinion" column: "Israel and U.S. To Blame for the Bloody Dawn Massacre", by Salamah 'Ukur] [Text] It should be quite obvious now -- both to the Palestinians and the whole world -- that cohabitation between the Palestinians and Jewish settlers in Gaza and the West Bank is u...
FBIS3-12316_0
Paper Blames U.S., Israel Blamed for Attack
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN ["Issue and Opinion" column: "Israel and U.S. To Blame for the Bloody Dawn Massacre", by Salamah 'Ukur] [Text] It should be quite obvious now -- both to the Palestinians and the whole world -- that cohabitation between the Palestinians and Jewish settlers in Gaza and the West Bank is u...
FBIS3-12323_0
Rioting, Clashes Throughout Country Cause Casualties Over 40 Casualties in Incidents
Language: Hebrew Article Type:BFN [Text] Five people have been killed in the territories since the murder in Hebron this morning: two in the al-Burayj refugee camp, one in Gaza, one in Nabulus, and one in Bayt Jala. Four were killed in incidents with IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers and one by fire directed by a se...
FBIS3-12351_0
8 dead, 25 Injured
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Just in from the editor's desk: According to a report by the Security Forces, there are so far eight dead and 25 injured in the church explosion. The security forces reported that another explosive charge that was planted inside the church did not go off. A military expert was s...
FBIS3-12374_0
Iran's Velayati To Visit; Opposition Acts Curbed
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Report by 'Adnan Husayn: "With Announcement of Velayati Visit to Baghdad, Tehran Puts Pressure on Iraqi Opposition To Freeze Its Activities"] [Text] London -- Iraqi opposition sources have said that the Iranian Government has in recent weeks intensified pressure on the Iran-based Iraq...
FBIS3-12393_1
Officials, Commentaries React to Hebron Massacre NATO Strike To `Distract' Muslims
the implementation or violation of these resolutions form the most important pillar in the West's cooperation with Russia. The flood of Russian arms to Serbia and the dispatch of similar Western arms to Croatia--despite the international sanctions--are examples of how the resolution on the arms embargo was violated by ...
FBIS3-12396_1
Commentary Predicts More `Criminal Acts' by Israel
from such acts. It seized miles of Palestinian land, with the inhabitants forced to flee under pressure by Zionist gangs. Zionist operations in Palestine began with the well-known Dayr Yasin massacre, only to be followed by atrocities in Nasr al-Din, Bayt al-Khuri, al-Zaytun, and Bayt Dras. Al-Aqsa mosque was not spare...
FBIS3-12398_1
Reports View U.S. Embassy's Reaction to Terrorism
awareness and remain alert because `the situation may change.' "The first meeting was held at the embassy headquarters in Garden City last Sunday. The second was held at the American School in al- Ma'adi on Tuesday amid strict security measures and with a request by officials of the Embassy Media Office that nothing be...
FBIS3-12405_2
Qaddumi Discusses Hebron, `Decisive Measures'
settlements must be eliminated. They have become time bombs. You demanded that they be dismantled. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhaq Rabin said that settlements will stay, that you agreed to this, and that they insist on that agreement. [Qaddumi] First, we did not say we agree with maintaining the settlements. The politic...
FBIS3-12410_0
`Alliance' Forces Statement Denounces 'Arafat
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Statement issued by the Alliance of Palestinian Forces in Jordan in Amman on 27 February] [Text] Masses of our Palestinian people, and of the Arab and Islamic nation, the mosque martyrs and all the bereaved Palestinians curse 'Arafat and his traitorous gang, wash their hands from them...
FBIS3-12440_1
Commentaries Examine Israel, Hebron Massacre Israeli Government Role Viewed
to Arabs and the world that racist, expansionist Zionism and its characteristically blood-thirsty savagery are still there, and that peace rhetoric is so much lip service. Zionism and criminality are natural twins. Zionism cannot possibly be a peaceable movement, since it would thus be at cross purposes with it own psy...
FBIS3-12448_0
SAIRI Condemns Hebron Massacre
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN ["Text" of statement issued by the External Relations Department of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI); date not given] [Text] Once again, the Israeli Zionists have committed a bloody massacre, carried out this time in the sacred al-Ibrahimi Mosque. Hundreds...
FBIS3-12453_1
'Arafat Urges UN To Dispatch Troops for Protection
between the French Secret Army Organization and the Algerian settlers, as if history were repeating itself in both Algeria and in Palestine. I asked the president for Algeria's support in the Security Council and in international circles in order to confront this hideous conspiracy, which is an attempt to obstruct the ...
FBIS3-12460_0
Further Reports on Zuq Mikha'il Church Bombing Fadlallah Comments
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] 'Allamah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah has stated that the bombing of the Sayyidat al-Najat Church in Zuk is a grave development that aims to push Lebanon into very dangerous and negative security and political problems. He accused Israel's intelligence service of arranging the crim...
FBIS3-12465_0
League Secretary Comments on Lockerbie Issue
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Cairo, 1 Mar (MENA)--Arab League Secretary General Dr. 'Ismat 'Abd-al-Majid has reaffirmed the League's stance on how to properly solve the Libyan-Western dispute over the Lockerbie issue through negotiations, mediation, and judicial settlement in line with Clause 33 of the UN C...
FBIS3-12490_0
Editorial Says NATO Action in Bosnia Due to `Shame'
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "First Action in Bosnia"] [Text] The shooting down of four Serb ground attack planes by NATO may have been prompted to demonstrate that it really means business by enforcing UN Resolution 816 on the Bosnian no-fly zone. Repeated violations by both Serb aircraft and helicop...
FBIS3-12492_0
Minister Briefs Parliament on Relations With U.S.
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Lok Sabha was informed today that the government has categorically conveyed to the U.S. Administration that negative pronouncements by its authorities on issues such as Kashmir, human rights and Punjab will have a negative impact on India-U.S. bilateral relations. Answering...
FBIS3-12517_0
Kurds Protest `Deteriorating Living Conditions'
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Baghdad, 2 Mar (INA)--The towns and villages of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan are witnessing immense and massive indignation due insecurity and instability, increasing crime, and deteriorating living conditions. The newspaper AL-'IRAQ reported today that the people of Rawan...
FBIS3-12582_0
Editorial Examines U.S. Aims in Region
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Asia, Unite!] [Text] The trade dispute between Malaysia and Britain has once again underlined the need for a united Asian front to take on the trade warriors of the West. The decision by Kuala Lumpur to ban British firms from government contracts worth billions of dollars...
FBIS3-12617_0
Khamene'i, Rafasanjani `Power Struggle' Noted
Article Type:BFN [All Iranian names as published] [Editorial Report] London AL-WASAT in Arabic in its 21-27 February issue publishes on pages 17-19 an approximately 2,500-word report by Hasan 'Awwad on the current "power struggle" in Iran. The report says that Iranian President 'Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani "received a...
FBIS3-12620_0
Deputy Minister Views Status of Iraqi Relations
Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Report on remarks by Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian deputy foreign minister in charge of international affairs; place and date not given; from the "World of Politics" program--recorded] [Excerpts] [Unidentified announcer] [passage omitted] A group of our listeners have asked us to...
FBIS3-12621_1
Jordanian Diplomat Comments on Relations
To what do you attribute the problems that cropped up in Iranian-Jordanian relations? [Istanbuli] The current relations between Iran and Jordan are based on the two countries and peoples being Muslim, having a fundamental role in the Islamic world, and being part of the great Islamic ummah. You should not ignore the ro...
FBIS3-12630_0
* Discussion Continues on IRI's GATT Membership
Language: Persian Article Type:CSO [Text] While it has been more than two months since the successful conclusion of the eighth round of international trade talks known as the "Uruguay Round" in the framework of the GATT organization, the question of whether the Islamic Republic of Iran should or should not join this or...
FBIS3-12637_2
Columnist Blames Saudis for U.S. Airline Deal
the oil wealth into a scourge for the Arab nation. He is no longer part of the Arab nation. In fact, he is not concerned about the nation's interests and economic, security, and development needs. Here he is rushing to prove his loyalty to the United States by offering it services which no other agent regime can give. ...
FBIS3-12662_1
* Rumor of Hashemi-Rafsanjani's Resignation Reheard
is said that with the change in the Constitution Rafsanjani wants to eliminate from this law the provision that one person can serve only two consecutive terms as president of the republic, in order to be able to serve a third term in that office. However, in the Islamic Republic the procedure for revising or changing ...
FBIS3-12666_1
* Two Law Enforcement Agents Killed in Zahedan
a complete war zone and the scene of heavy fighting. Several residents of the city told news correspondents that the windows of their homes had been broken by bullets. IRNA gave no further details, but it insisted that the demonstrators are counterrevolutionaries and that these incidents mostly take place on the days o...
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* Capital Flight Reached $8 Billion in 1993
the flight of capital as a normal phenomenon and have attributed its increase in the years since the revolution to the ill will of those affiliated with the monarchy regime and to the consequences of the war. In its issue of 17 Mehr 1372 [9 October 1993], the newspaper RESALAT wrote: Based on the estimates that were ma...
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have positioned themselves here and there in government organizations as specialists and are making the analysis that our national currency should fall even further to reach real parity." The experts the newspaper refers to are in the Central Bank. As was mentioned, they put the parity rate of the rial and the dollar a...
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at 280 tomans. `Ruinous' Policies On the other hand, in its 24 Azar [3 November] issue the newspaper JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI published a very harshly worded editorial accusing Hashemi-Rafsanjani's government, without mentioning the president of the republic's name, of implementing "ruinous" economic policies. This newspaper ...
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Opposition Comments on 1992 Plane Crash
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Libyan Opposition Once Again Highlights Plane Incident"] [Text] London, AL-HAYAH -- The Libyan opposition has once again highlighted the incident of the crash of the Libyan plane which was flying from Benghazi to Tripoli in December 1992. In a statement issued by...
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King Hassan Views Middle East, EU Issues
affection and support without hesitation and reap the benefits. The Arab-Israeli negotiations are still continuing and are going through difficult times, in which it is difficult to disentangle the intricacies. Nevertheless, it will reach its aim. The whole world wishes for this and works toward it. [passage omitted] W...
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'Aziz Reacts to FOREIGN AFFAIRS Article
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Baghdad, 4 Mar (INA) -- Deputy Prime Minister Tariq 'Aziz has stressed that the bad advisers to the U.S. President, who are pushing the U.S. Administration into taking rancorous and illogical stands and are preventing the UN Security Council from fulfilling its obligations towar...
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'Aziz Reacts to FOREIGN AFFAIRS Article
explains that this adviser, who lacks sufficient knowledge of history, the social and political facts of the region, and conditions inside Iraq, cannot provide any convincing evidence to prove the policy he is promoting has achieved any of its objectives. He noted that the insistence on maintaining the blockade against...
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Turkey Protests Kurdish Request for Moscow Ties
Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] A Kurdish conference sponsored by the Russian authorities has sent a message to Russian President Boris Yeltsin asking Moscow to establish official relations with the Kurdish movement based on their mutual interests. Reporting this yesterday, the London-based AL-HAYAH newspaper ...
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Rights Group Protests Force Used to Quell Riots
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Israeli human rights organization, Betzelem, has sharply criticized the lethal gunfire used by the army to quell Palestinian riots. At a news conference in Jerusalem today, Betzelem said soldiers killed 21 Palestinian since the Hebron massacre. In response, the government s...
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Continued Commentaries, Reports on Church Bombing Syrian Position is `Main Question'
the case of a good number of states in the region such as Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. Such an argument appears to be solid and logical, but what is required is an understanding of the Lebanese situation, which must be viewed from a special angle because that small country is in the process of rebuilding itself...
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Deputies Criticize Turkey's `Undeclared War' Against Kurds
Tansu Ciller. It was handed to the Turkish ambassador in Damascus at the embassy premises. In that memorandum, the deputies said that reports carried by news agencies and the Turkish media about the military operations carried out by the Turkish Army in the east and southeast of Turkey (Kurdistan) confirm that "what th...
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Deputies Criticize Turkey's `Undeclared War' Against Kurds
that reports carried by news agencies and the Turkish media about the military operations carried out by the Turkish Army in the east and southeast of Turkey (Kurdistan) confirm that "what the Army is doing is tantamount to an undeclared war against the Kurdish people and that the police and gendarmerie forces are impo...
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Continued Reports, Commentaries on Hebron Incident 'Arafat `Cooperation' With Israel, U.S. Cited
sprayed Muslim worshippers at the tomb of the Patriarch in Hebron killing more than 30 Palestinians and injuring dozens more. Israeli security force also did their bit by killing at least another 18 Palestinians and wounding many more when they fired into the crowds gathered at hospitals to donate blood and show suppor...
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Reza'i Denies DPRK To Test Missiles in Country
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by staff correspondent] [Text] Tehran -- Major General Mohsen Reza'i scoffed at Western media reports that claim Iran is for nuclear weapons saying "Political logic, morality, our own culture and above all the situation in today's world does not allow us to have such deadly we...
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for the last 13 years, comes from Masjed Soleyman, Khuzestan Province. In answer to another question, Reza'i said the Kuridish problem in Iraq is under our observation and our forces are ready to counter any sort of terrorist activities launched from there. Referring to the agreement signed by Iran and Turkey he said "...